Fifty Pounds. By Christabel R. Coleridge. (National Society.) —In this
story Miss Coleridge pursues the fortunes of some of the characters who appeared in her "Green Girls of Greythorpe." The principal personage is Linda Inglewood, whom we remember to have left under the kindly care of her grandfather and aunt. Miss Linda finds the shelter a little tedious ; she has heroic aspirations, and is not satisfied with common duties. Especially has she the hope of succeeding in literature, and she seeks to gain the ear of the public by romantic stories in which high-born heroes and heroines meet with very uncommon adventures. Of course she has her disenchantment, and so has her brother, who, little satisfied with his life as a bank-clerk, has ambitions of his own, chiefly of a social kind. It is a very pleasant story, but has nothing particularly characteristic of the author's special powers in it.
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